Reason for Hope: A Boba Fett Biopic

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The Star Wars movies are not so bad if you mute them. The legacy of George Lucas's franchise is its visual imagination; the space-opera plotting, not so much (nor — I'm sorry, John Williams — that bludgeoning score). Those who were younger when they saw Star Wars will recall the particular fascination with Boba Fett, whose brief appearance in The Empire Strikes Back, in which he says little, and Return of the Jedi, in which he says nothing, launched an outsize legacy. Why? Well, all the things people really watch the Star Wars movies for: Jetpack. Cool-looking gun. The threat of his dark-tinted helmet. The fact that he basically takes orders from no one. He doesn't need to say anything. The news that a movie revolving around him is in the works could mean the most superficially pleasurable Star Wars movie yet. One with far fewer words. And hopefully more cantina.